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I think part of the problem is that it’s hard to quantify what a reasonable person can do in an hour. My fellow cross-country running teammates and I could form
by URSpider94 6y ago
I think part of the problem is that it’s hard to quantify what a reasonable person can do in an hour. My fellow cross-country running teammates and I could form a delivery company and jog to and from every house. Or I might figure out that it’s actually more effective to put two people in every truck and have one of them be sorting and dropping while the other one drives. The companies that make these kinds of innovations SHOULD be rewarded. It’s not immediately obvious how to sort those from the ones who push their employees to just work longer shifts.
- crazygringo 6y agoIt's definitely not easy, but it's what companies do all the time, and courts are pretty used to getting access to internal documents that model cost structures, as well as bringing in expert witnesses from the industry. But basically, any company (like Amazon) does cost modeling of every step involved in a process long before they decide whether to hire employees to do it, or contract it out. In fact, that's precisely how they can determine how much they're willing to pay to contract something out. So it's not really that hard for a court to demand that a company produce its modeling estimates, and then compare with the actual service provided, and show that the company either a) knew that corners would need to be cut illegally, or b) made negligent assumptions. Remember, I'm not talking about mom and pop shops who are all sharing a single huge contractor like UPS or FedEx. I'm talking about huge companies like Amazon or Uber who use a large number of subcontractors. They have entire teams of people who model this stuff. They know exactly what they're doing.